The Roots of Humanity in Shakespeare (J—N)

Join we together for the public good.

2 Henry VI—i, 1

Joy, gentle friends! joy, and fresh days of love

Accompany your hearts !

Midsummer Night's Dream—v, 1

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,

With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence. 

1 Henry VI—ii, 5

Justice always whirls in equal measure.

Love's Labors Lost—iv, 3

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Keep thy word justly. 

Lear—iii, 4

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,

Shall win my love.

 Taming of the Shrew—iv, 1

Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.

As You Like It—iv, 3

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Lay her i' the earth;

And from her fair and unpolluted flesh

May violets spring. 

Hamlet—v, 1

Less noise! less noise! 

2 Henry IV—iv, 4

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,

Thy God's, and truth's. 

Henry VIII—iii, 2

Let all the number of the stars give light

To thy fair way! 

Antony and Cleopatra—iii, 2

Let me embrace these sour adversities,

For wise men say it is the wisest course.

3 Henry VI—iii, 1

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil.

All's Well that Ends Well—i, 2

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediment. 

Sonnet 16

Let men take heed of their company.

2 Henry IV—v, 1

Let me wipe off this honourable dew,

That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks.

King John—v, 2

Let music sound while he doth make his choice.

Merchant of Venice—iii, 2

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,

But still remember what the Lord hath done.

2 Henry VI—ii, 1

Let no man abide this deed

But we the doers.

 Julius Caesar—iii, 1

Let not my love be called idolatry,

Nor my beloved as an idol show.

Sonnet 105

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls.

Richard III—v, 3

Let pale-fac'd fear keep with the mean-born man

And find no harbour in a royal heart.

2 Henry VI—iii, 1

Let the end try the man.

2 Henry IV—ii,2 

Let the gods so speed me as I love

The name of honour more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar—i, 2

Let thy song be love. 

Troilus and Cressida—iii, 1

Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers.

Julius Caesar—ii, 1

Let us still continue peace and love.

1 Henry VI—iv, 1

Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!

Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.

Julius Caesar—iii, 1

Life is a shuttle. 

Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 1

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more.

Macbeth—v, 5

Like a school broke up,

Each hurries towards his home and sporting-place.

2 Henry IV—iv, 2

Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd.

Measure for Measure—iv, 2

Look, what is done cannot be now amended.

Richard III—iv, 4

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit.

Sonnet 26

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Midsummer Night's Dream—iii, 2

Love all, trust a few,

Do wrong to none. 

All's Well that Ends Well—i, 1

Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide!

Rape of Lucrece

Love and meekness, lords,

Become a churchman better than ambition.

Henry VIII—v, 2

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Venus and Adonis

Love for thy love, and hand for hand I give.

1 Henry VI—iii, 1

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books

Romeo and Juliet—ii, 2

Love hath twenty pair of eyes.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—ii, 4

Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. 

Love's Labour's Lost—i, 2

Love is all truth. 

Venus and Adonis

Love is a spirit all compact of fire,

Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire.

Venus and Adonis

Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues.

Merry Wives of Windsor—ii, 2

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

Midsummer Night's Dream—i, 1

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

Venus and Adonis

Love's heralds should be thoughts,

Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams. 

Romeo and Juliet—ii, 5

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Twelfth Night—iii, 1

Love surfeits not. 

Venus and Adonis

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

Sonnet 73

Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers. 

Twelfth Night—i, 1

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth. 

Rape of Lucrece

Love

Will creep in service where it cannot go.

Two Gentlemen of Verona—iv, 2

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Make but my name thy love, and love that still,

And then thou lov'st me, for my name is Will.

Sonnet 126

Make use of time; let not advantage slip.

Venus and Adonis

Many men that stumble at the threshold

Are well foretold that danger lurks within.

3 Henry VI—iv, 7

Mark, how one string, sweet husband to another,

Strikes each in each, by mutual ordering.

Sonnet 8

Men are men: the best sometimes forget.

Othello—ii, 3

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

Julius Caesar—i, 2

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them; but not for love.

As You Like It—iv, 1

Men must endure

Their going hence, even as their coming hither.

Lear—v, 2

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

Rape of Lucrece

Men should be what they seem.

Othello—iii, 3

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Timon of Athens—i, 2

Merciful powers,

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature

Gives way to in repose! 

Macbeth—ii, 1

Misery is trodden on by many,

And being low never relieved by any.

Venus and Adonis

Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate;

Life every man holds dear ; but the dear man

Holds honour far more precious dear than life.

Troilus and Cressida—v, 3

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive grief the enemy to the living.

All's Well that Ends Well—i, 1

Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;

Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.

Richard II—v, 5

Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.

Rape of Lucrece

My actions are as noble as my thoughts.

Pericles—ii, 5

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale.

Richard III—v, 3

My joy is—death;

Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard.

2 Henry VI—ii, 4

My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind

That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

2 Henry VI—ii. 1

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul

Shall manifest me rightly.

Othello—i, 2

My salad days!

When I was green in judgment,—cold in blood!

Antony and Cleopatra—i, 5

My years are young,

And fitter is my study and my books

Than wanton dalliance. 

1 Henry VI—v, 1

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Hamlet—i, 3

New customs,

Though they be never so ridiculous,

Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed.

Henry VIII—i, 3

Never anything can be amiss

When simpleness and duty tender it.

Midsummer Night's Dream—v, 1

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain's tops.

Romeo and Juliet—iii, 5

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Timon of Athens—iii, 5

Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,

And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger.

Midsummer Night's Dream—iii, 2

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

Sonnet 44

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Richard III—i, 2

No black envy shall mark my grave.

Henry VIII—ii, 1

No day without a deed to crown it.

Henry VIII—v, 4

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

All's Well that Ends Well—iii, 5

No man means evil but the devil.

Merry Wives of Windsor—v, 2

Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn

The living record of your memory.

Sonnet 55

No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure 'scape. 

Measure for Measure—iii, 2

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. 

Sonnet 35

No perfection is so absolute

That some impurity doth not pollute.

Rape of Lucrece

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Timon of Athens—iii, 5

Nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice.

Othello—v, 2

Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again;

That she may long live here, God say—Amen!

Richard III—v, 5

Now cracks a noble heart.

Good night, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

Hamlet—v, 2

Now, God be praised! that to believing souls

Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

2 Henry VI—ii, 1

Now happy he, whose cloak and cincture can

Hold out this tempest. 

King John—iv, 3

Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please.

1 Henry VI—iii, 2

Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.

Love's Labours Lost—i, 3

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;

Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden. 

2 Henry VI—iii, 1

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